Dress Phrases

Phrases

• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• Adjust your dress
• All dressed up and nowhere to go
• Bail jumper
• Bit of skirt
• Blow my skirt up
• Change of address
• Clothes maketh the man
• Cross dressing
• Dancing pleats that won't sit out (Orlon Fabric advertising slogan)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Did you get dressed in the dark?
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Doll yourself up
• Drag queen
• Dress code
• Dress down
• Dress down Friday
• Dress for success
• Dress up
• Dress up Thursday
• Dressed For Success (song by Roxette)
• Dressed to kill
• Dressed up to the nines
• Dressing down
• Frock horror
• Frock up
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• I wear my sunglasses at night
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
• If the cap fits, wear it
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• In a state of undress
• In uniform
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
• Little black dress
• Little black number
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Mutton dressed as lamb
• Not exactly blowing my skirt up
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Please address the court
• Power dressing
• Redress the balance
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie song)
• Skirt chaser
• The emperor's new clothes
• The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades (song by Timbuk 3)
• Town and gown
• Underneath Your Clothes (Shakira song)
• War eagle (the golden eagle - used by Native Americans to make headdresses)
• Wear the pine overcoat
• Wear the trousers
• Wear your apron high
• Wear your heart on your sleeve
• Wear yourself out
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• Window dressing
• Worse for wear
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)